We finally completed a shade garden of sorts by the front door. We spent $15 on dirt at the local landscape store. Our friends lent us their truck and we ended up with a large load of black dirt. It was so much work for Tim to rake and dig out all of the decorative stone and fabric, but it looks so nice now. My parents got us a watering system (in payment for dogsitting!) and the plants in the front have never looked so great. Neither have the weeds.
All photos taken approximately July 10th, 2011.
The turkeys are growing so big! We have a medium white and a large bronze. It's funny that the white was hatched first (by three days or so) yet it's the smallest of the turkeys. The fluffy head has been replaced by an interesting texture of skin. It's a face that only a mother could love:
Lastly, the garden has been growing really fast. I'm all about making excuses, so here is a big one. I had flats of wonderful seedlings started in my dining room. The weather warmed, the sun shone bright. What stopped me from getting my little seedlings into the warm ground. Well, our tiller was not working. By the time the small engine repair place let us know that we no longer have a tiller, several weeks had passed. Some thoughts for the future: Don't wait until spring to get your tiller fixed. The small engine place gets really backed up :) Other thoughts: Renting a tiller was a great money saver and the tiller worked really well. It only took us a couple of hours to till both gardens. By then, however, I was a little behind. Thus, my plants are now a little behind. I guess that I know for next year. The strawberries were great this year. Beans are starting, snap peas are almost ripe, and the garden is starting to fill out nicely. Pictures follow:
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